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Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Technology Work for People With Disabilities--Not Against Them
https://gizmodo.com/elizabeth-warren-has-a-plan-to-make-technology-work-for-1840773800Part of Warren’s 2020 presidential platform, the 16-page plan, titled “Protecting the Rights and Equality of People with Disabilities,” aims to fulfill the promise, Warren said, of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 1990 law, which aimed to eliminate discrimination by requiring employers and public entities to offer reasonable accommodations to those with disabilities, among other measures.
A core pillar of the plan is ensuring that technology advances in a way that promotes independent living and accessibility.
According to the World Health Organization, around 2.2 billion people globally have some form of vision impairment or blindness. The WHO estimates that by 2050, over 900 million people will have some type of disabling hearing loss. In the United States, nearly 13 percent of people have a disability, according to U.S. Census Bureau surveys.
Technology has in many ways improved the lives of people with disabilities, but it can also be isolating and exclusionary, particularly when accessibility is an afterthought of designers and engineers. In 2017, Vint Cerf, who’s recognized as one of the “fathers of the internet” and is himself hearing-impaired, sharply criticized as “almost criminal” programmers who’ve failed to consider people who experience hearing, visual, and motor problems.
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Warren’s plan—which also addresses needs like affordable health care and economic self-sufficiency and would open new offices aimed at protecting disability rights at the U.S. State Department and elsewhere—calls for a reduction in the cost of assistive technologies. A specific method of enforcement mentioned by the plan is using the 1980 Bayh–Dole Act to effectively ignore the exclusivity of patents on assistive technologies when companies fail to make products affordable.
“If companies that used government funding to develop their products are unwilling or unable to offer key assistive technologies at reasonable prices, my administration will use its authority under the Bayh-Dole Act to license patented innovations to companies that will ensure that technologies are available to the public on reasonable terms,” Warren said.
Warren, a liberal candidate who’s led the call to “break up Big Tech” and plans to pay for many of her campaign promises by implementing a new tax on the wealthiest Americans, reintroduced in the Senate last month the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HIGH) Act, which is intended to help students with disabilities get the same access to educational materials and technologies as students who do not have disabilities.
“Despite strong anti-discrimination laws, students with disabilities still face discriminatory policies and practices that disproportionately impact them,” Warren said.
She has my vote............and yes, I am bias ......................
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